[Isl] Coping, Resilience, and Successful Aging December Newsletter

[Neil Charness]

Hi Julia:

Thanks, I’m passing this along to the affiliates and they can contact you for more details or a calendar invite.  Best, Neil

Neil Charness, Ph.D., William G. Chase Professor of Psychology
FSU Distinguished Research Professor
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From: Julia Sheffler <julia.sheffler at med.fsu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 4, 2022 5:12 PM
To: Neil Charness <charness at psy.fsu.edu>
Cc: Callie Kindelsperger <cperson at fsu.edu>
Subject: FW: Coping, Resilience, and Successful Aging December Newsletter

Hi Neil,

I’m one of the leaders of the Coping, Resilience, and Successful Aging SIG for APA, and we are hosting a talk this month. The information is below. I think we’ll be sending out a calendar invite this week that I can forward as well, if you think this would be of interest to other ISL members.

Best,
Julia


Julia Sheffler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Center for Translational Behavioral Science
Florida State University College of Medicine
www.CTBScience.org<http://www.ctbscience.org/>
850-644-4199

From: Coping, Resilience, and Successful Aging SIG <apa.crs.sig at gmail.com<mailto:apa.crs.sig at gmail.com>>
Sent: Friday, December 3, 2021 2:55 PM
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Subject: Coping, Resilience, and Successful Aging December Newsletter

Dear Coping, Resilience, and Successful Aging SIG members,
Happy holidays! In this newsletter, we are excited to share two upcoming workshops that will showcase the research and clinical expertise of our members. For our first workshop, we will be hearing from Dr. Emily Mroz and Dr. Shubam Sharma. For more information on their talk, please see the “upcoming workshop” section below. Additionally, please see the “coming soon” section below for more information on our second workshop with Dr. David Almeida and a new journal club we will be starting in the new year. Finally, don't forget to follow us on Twitter<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/twitter.com/APADiv20CrsSig__;!!PhOWcWs!gWODSvHsWM4Q5Scu1MSa6ZoCUZk0VdpuTopluSXFuwgBKC3h9FPDvHGnnLWUM1TnOsNsMb85$> for the most up to date happenings relevant to coping, resilience, and successful aging!

Upcoming Workshop:
This talk is titled, The power of the life story: Use of personal memories for coping, resilience, and psychological development in older adulthood. Below, we have included the speaker biographies as well as an abstract for the talk. The workshop will be held via Zoom on January 25th at 4 PM. Here is the link: https://zoom.us/j/94177301661?pwd=Z2JvMUExMC9Fb3hEYXpPcXlpaHpHdz09<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/zoom.us/j/94177301661?pwd=Z2JvMUExMC9Fb3hEYXpPcXlpaHpHdz09__;!!PhOWcWs!gWODSvHsWM4Q5Scu1MSa6ZoCUZk0VdpuTopluSXFuwgBKC3h9FPDvHGnnLWUM1TnOi1hXYii$>
Speaker Biographies
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Dr. Mroz is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Medicine, Yale University. Her research investigates strategies for supporting individuals through caregiving, loss, and end-of-life. Much of Dr. Mroz's research adopts a life story approach, recognizing that that individuals make sense of their lives through the autobiographical memories they recall and share. Her work investigates ways that memories influence health and wellbeing outcomes in late life and following serious illness onset, including health care decision-making, caregiving resilience, grief adjustment, and personal growth.
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Dr. Sharma is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Kennesaw State University. She is a lifespan developmental psychologist. Her mixed-methods research investigates the internal and external resources that foster resilience and psychological well-being in the face of challenging life events, particularly in late life. Of particular interest is how older adults recall memories of challenging events and how such memories can be recounted in psychologically adaptive ways.
Abstract
The Power of the Life Story: Use of Personal Memories for Coping, Resilience, and Psychological Development in Older Adulthood
Many normative, yet challenging life experiences in older adulthood can disrupt personal goals or routines and harm health and well-being. We argue that these challenging life experiences also offer unique opportunities for positive psychological development. Guided by a life story framework (McAdams, 2001), our programs of research highlight use of personal memories as pathways to positive psychological development which may manifest from challenging experiences in late life. As such, this workshop will first provide an overview of the life story framework and review well-documented psychological uses of autobiographical memories. We will describe the importance of use of personal memories for psychological adaptation in older adulthood. We will then present recent results from our research (spanning a variety of challenging experiences in late life) which demonstrate the role of life story in a) coping with life challenges, b) resilience in the face of life challenges and c) rich psychological development derived from life challenges. Findings will be presented in tandem with rich narrative exemplars. The workshop will conclude with a networking-style opportunity for participants to delineate ways to adopt the life story framework to address their own late-life coping and resilience research questions.
Following this talk, participants will be able to:

·         Describe a life story approach to research on coping, resilience, and psychological development in late life

·         Generate research ideas that incorporate a life story approach into the study of resilience and psychological development in late life

·         Identify potential avenues for collaboration on research which incorporates a life story perspective

Coming Soon:
Workshop: Later in the spring, Dr. David Almeida will also be giving a talk titled, Health as a daily experience:  Lessons from 42,243 days of US adults.
Journal Club: We will be starting journal club meetings in February 2022. In January we will send out a zoom link with the date and time.


Please reach out to us if you have questions or would be interested in presenting to our SIG in the future.
Happy holidays!
The Coping, Resilience, and Successful Aging SIG Leaders
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